L. E. Modesitt Quotes
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
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I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.
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Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!
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Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles especially strong. Job growth has bolstered household income, and lower energy prices have left consumers with more to spend on other goods and services.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
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I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
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Just because we're on USA, we didn't necessarily have to be the USA brand.
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I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
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Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.
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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
